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Xfce, LXDE, & GNOME Are Running On Ubuntu XMir

06-24-2013, 07:20 PM

Phoronix: Xfce, LXDE, & GNOME Are Running On Ubuntu XMir

With all of the controversy surrounding the Mir Display Server for Ubuntu Linux on non-Unity desktops, a Canonical engineer sought to find out what Linux desktops would work atop Mir if using the XMir X.Org Server compatibility layer...

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Pointless, utterly pointless. Soon everyone will use Wayland anyway, and who even remembers that some little thing called "Mir" used to exist?

We shouldn't dismiss it immediately simply because its Canonical..

Whilst I'll be the first to say Canonical makes some crap products (unity only became a production-quality product in the last release), and they tend to rush unfinished programs into production, it is possible Mir as a final product may be able to compete with Mir. That being said, them constantly making their own products instead of joining existing projects with similar goals wont encourage the community to join development, and may naturally lead to a worse product.

Either way, we all win because both Wayland and Mir are a huge step forward for Linux over X11